Folk Ballad «Oy, ne Khody, Hrytsyu, ta y na Vechornytsi» in Literary Interpretation.

Abstract

The master’s thesis covers the literary interpretation of the Ukrainian folk ballad «Oy, ne Khody, Hrytsyu, ta y na Vechornytsi» in works of art of various genres. The signs of folk ballads as an autonomous system of folklore have been clarified. The peculiarities of the individual-author version of the ballad in the works of different chronology of writing are substantiated, namely: Mykhailo Starytsky’s drama «Oy, ne Khody, Hrytsyu, ta y na Vechornytsi», Olga Kobylyanska’s novel «On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs», novel of Lina Kostenko «Marusya Churai». Novels by Olga Kobylyanska and Lina Kostenko are compared as a difference of the conflict, which influences the motive of committing sin by the hero. It is determined that the outline of the ballad story is enriched with many new details that significantly expand the plot, affects the characteristics of the relationship of the characters.